data.gov.uk launches in public beta
January 21st, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Handy tools and technology, Online Journalism
As widely reported elsewhere, data.gov.uk is now available in public beta:
Data.gov.uk acts as an online point of access for government-held non-personal data. This is to enable people like you to take it, re-use it and make interesting things with.
Full introductory post at this link…
“It’s [government data] such an untapped resource,” Sir Tim Berners Lee told BBC News.
“Government data is something we have already spent the money on… and when it is sitting there on a disk in somebody’s office it is wasted.”
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June 2nd, 2010 at 7:14 am
[...] Any information published will be “in an open standardised format” and licensed for free reuse so that it can be used by third parties, says the letter. The timetable and new plans follow January’s launch of a new website for government-held data. [...]